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Sciarra Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$525k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$500k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20212024.

Arts & Culture$505kHousing & Shelter$150kEducation$145kPhilanthropy$120kHuman Services$100kCommunity Improvement$100kYouth Development$10k
02FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
  • $250k+1 grant · $500k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The American Independent Foundation$500,000
Aspen community Foundation$10,000
The Buddy Program Inc$10,000
Anderson Arts Center$5,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 75% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%LIFEMOVES: $150k → 7%Oshman Family Jewish Community Center: $100k → 8%SAN FRANCISCO EDUCATION FUND: $25k → 10%GoFundMeorg: $100k → 14%Anderson Arts Center: $5k → 15%The American Independent Foundation: $500k → 14%The Buddy Program Inc: $10k → 6%Aspen community Foundation: $10k → 7%THE BELL POLICY CENTER: $100k → 12%EDUCATION LAW CENTER: $120k → 16%LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $10k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Arizona Community Foundation

To lead, serve and collaborate to mobilize enduring philanthropy for a better arizona.

Philanthropy
2
The Longmont Community Foundation

Improving life in the st. vrain valley through philanthropy and charitable leadership

Philanthropy
3
Silicon Schools Fund Inc

The mission of the silicon schools fund is to improve education through supporting the launch of excellent new schools, improving academic instruction in existing schools, and by funding some of the boldest innovations in education…

Education
4
American Council of Young Political Leaders

Acypl's mission is to design and conduct bilateral and multilateral international educational exchanges designed to promote mutual understanding, respect, and friendship and to cultivate long-lasting relationships among tomorrow's global…

International
5
Latino Community Foundation

Lcf exists to unleash the civic and economic power of latinos in california. lcf fulfills the mission by building a movement of critically engaged philanthropic leaders, investing in latino-led orgs, and increasing civic participation of…

Human Services
6
Los Altos Chamber of Commerce

To encourage and promote businesses and to stimulate a vibrant economy in los altos and los altos hills.

7
Colorado Legal Services

To provide meaningful access to high quality, civil legal services in the pursuit of justice for as many low income persons and members of vulnerable populations throughout colorado as possible.

Crime & Legal
8
Alameda Education Foundation

AEF serves as a critical bridge toward equitable and inclusive educational outcomes for Alameda TK-12 public school students.

9
Arapahoe County Early Childhood Council Inc

Services provided in arapahoe county colorado related to early childhood education intervention issues.

Education
10
Community Foundation Santa Cruz County

To promote philanthropy to make santa cruz county a better place to live, now and in the future.we bring together people, ideas, and resources to inspire philanthropy and accomplish great things.

Philanthropy
11
SFMade Inc

Our mission is to help manufacturers thrive, innovate, and create good jobs, for a more diverse and sustainable Bay Area.

Community Improvement
12
Icafund

Ica fund accelerates great businesses through mentoring and investments to catalyze value in local markets and create community wealth.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Education Law Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Bell Policy Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

11 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
5/11
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $500,000 · OtherTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATIONLIFEMOVES — $150,000 · OtherLIFEMOVESOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100,000 · OtherOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER+1 more — $10,000 · OtherEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $120,000 · EducationEDUCATION LAW …San Francisco Education Fund — $25,000 · EducationSan Francisco …GOFUNDMEORG — $100,000 · PhilanthropyGOFUNDMEORGASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyASPEN COMMUN…LOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOS ALTOS MO…THE BELL POLICY CENTER — $100,000 · Civil RightsTHE BELL P…ANDERSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — $5,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$760,000Education$145,000Philanthropy$120,000Civil Rights$100,000Arts & Culture$5,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE AMERICAN INDEPENDENT FOUNDATION — $500,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetLIFEMOVES — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDUCATION LAW CENTER INC — $120,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOSHMAN FAMILY JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE BELL POLICY CENTER — $100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetGOFUNDMEORG — $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSan Francisco Education Fund — $25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASPEN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOS ALTOS MOUNTAIN VIEW COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUDDY PROGRAM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetANDERSON COUNTY ARTS COUNCIL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

National Philanthropic TrustPA9.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Sciarra Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

    On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

    Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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